Natalie Chalk
Reporter and Editor at Freelance
Freelance News Editor and Sub Editor at The i Paper
News Editor at Daily Mail
Blogger at Chalk Marks
On Daily Mail’s news desk, commissioning, subbing and editing across the paper, Mail+ and MailOnline | Passion project: travel newsletter @thechalkmarks
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1 week ago |
chalkmarks.co.uk | Natalie Chalk
Good afternoon. This is what happened in the world of travel this week: Friday 20th June2025HELLO travellers, how are you doing? It’s travel time Friday. It’s good to have you here, and it’s good to be here. We have a question for you about Dubai. Is it too expensive? We thought it was for billionaires but we bagged a cheap week’s holiday staying in a four-star hotel. We saw the skyscrapers, the souks …and made huge savings. What was the catch? It’s 40C in June (see pic above).
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2 weeks ago |
chalkmarks.co.uk | Natalie Chalk
THE first thing you notice about Dubai is the temperature – it’s cold. Yep! At the airport, in the taxis, in the hotels and museums. But, step outside and it’s a 40C oven – eek! Indoors you need a jumper on in the air conditioning. The Emiratis have truly mastered how to beat the heat. It’s very different from how the Bedouins once lived.
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3 weeks ago |
chalkmarks.co.uk | Natalie Chalk
JUST as the hottest spring ends, the wettest summer has arrived so a few swipes on the Googles and we’re off to Dubai. It’s going to be 30C and wall to wall sunshine guaranteed. It’s now also the new home of chocolate – forget Switzerland – it’s all about the huge bars filled with pistachio cream and crunch. This is happiness. Happiness is… getting on a plane. Joy is departing on a flight that leaves on time. And ecstasy is having a row to yourself. We just don’t know what to say right now.
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4 weeks ago |
chalkmarks.co.uk | Natalie Chalk
Good morning. This is what happened in the world of travel this week: Friday 30th May2025WE JUST love to travel. We endlessly scroll the socials, google countries, and tune in to travel shows searching out our next destination. This time it was the BBC’s Race Across the World in China that grabbed our attention. We just watched: wow! We have fallen for it. We are definitely going there.
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4 weeks ago |
chalkmarks.co.uk | Natalie Chalk
Good morning. This is what happened in the world of travel this week: Friday 16th May2025THE SUN is out and everyone’s thoughts are turning to summer holidays but the stressful part is where to go and how much it is all going to cost. And so to the hottest rivalry of 2025: Benidorm vs the Balkans and the Baltics (pic of Jurmala, Latvia, above). It’s the battle of the hotspots and which are cheapest.
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